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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 17:00:52 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Contemplating drastic change to mount handling
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On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:41:19PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:58:54PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >> /etc/fstab would be the same as it is on linux.  /etc/mtab would be a
>> >> binary (trie) representation of the mount table which could be mapped
>> >> into cygwin on the fly, eliminating the need to parse any options.
>> >>
>> >> So, basically the "permanent" mounts would be whatever existed in
>> >> /etc/fstab, maybe with an auto field turned on.
>> >
>> >And getting rid of user mounts... :-)
>>
>> I don't know if we can go that far.  I think that some people still
>> need them.
>
>/proc/mounts might be a good location for the trie, to mimic Linux usage.
>Then /etc/mtab can store all mounts as text (the info that's currently in
>the registry), and /etc/fstab would only have permanent mounts (currently
>system?).

The trie is an actual file so it can't really reside in /proc/mounts.  It
really resembles /etc/mtab more than /proc/mounts in this regard.

cgf